The Bashful Bachelor

The Bashful Bachelor
Chester Lauck in the film
Directed by	Malcolm St. Clair Charles Kerr (assistant)
Produced by	Jack William Votion
Written by	Chester Lauck (story) and Norris Goff (story) Chandler Sprague (screenplay)
Cinematography	Paul Ivano
Edited by	W. Duncan Mansfield
Distributed by	RKO Pictures
Release dates	April 24, 1942 (1942-04-24) (U.S.)^[1]
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$165,000 (estimated)
Box office	$675,000 (USA)

The Bashful Bachelor is a 1942 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair. It was the second film in the Lum and Abner film series.

Plot

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse. And because Lum doesn't have the guts to grab the woman he is in love with, Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts), and propose to once and for all, he lays a complex scheme to impress her in a fake "rescue" mission. He fails tremendously in this mission, and nearly gets everyone killed in doing so. However, he doesn't give up, but tries again, and finally succeeds in impressing her. His problems aren't over though, since his proposal, who was to be delivered to Geraldine by his partner Abner, ends up in the wrong hands when it is delivered to a very prone bachelorette, Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy) instead. She jumps at the possibility of marrying Lum, and the game is afoot. Lum doesn't get out of trouble until the town sheriff (Irving Bacon) finds widow Widder's disappeared husband.^[2]

Cast

Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards
Norris Goff as Abner Peabody
ZaSu Pitts as Geraldine
Grady Sutton as Cedric Wiehunt
Oscar O'Shea as Squire Skimp
Louise Currie as Marjorie
Constance Purdy as Widder Abernathy
Irving Bacon as Sheriff / Fire Chief
Earle Hodgins as Joseph Abernathy
Benny Rubin as Pitch Man

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Bashful Bachelor.

The Bashful Bachelor at the Internet Movie Database
The Bashful Bachelor is available for free download at the Internet Archive

References

↑ "The Bashful Bachelor: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
↑ The Bashful Bachelordetails, imdb.com; accessed September 23, 2015.

Films directed by Malcolm St. Clair

1910s	Rip & Stitch: Tailors (1919) The Little Widow (1919) No Mother to Guide Him (1919)

1920s	Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920) He Loved Like He Lied (1920) His Youthful Fancy (1920) Don't Weaken! (1920) Welcome Home (1920) A Kitchen Cinderella (1920) Wedding Bells Out of Tune (1921) Sweetheart Days (1921) The Goat (1921) The Night Before (1921) Call a Cop (1921) Bright Eyes (1921) You'd Be Surprised (1922) Don't Be Foolish (1922) Wedding Dumb Bells (1922) The Blacksmith (1922) Their First Vacation (1922) Twin Husbands (1922) Entertaining the Boss (1922) Keep 'Em Home (1922) Christmas (1923) Fighting Blood (1923) The Knight in Gale (1923) The Knight That Failed (1923) Six Second Smith (1923) Two Stones with One Bird (1923) Some Punches and Judy (1923) Gall of the Wild (1923) Rice and Old Shoes (1923) The End of a Perfect Fray (1923) When Gale and Hurricane Meet (1923) Judy Punch (1923) George Washington, Jr. (1924) Julius Sees Her (1924) When Knighthood Was in Tower (1924) Money to Burns (1924) King Leary (1924) William Tells (1924) Sherlock's Home (1924) For the Love of Mike (1924) The Square Sex (1924) Bee's Knees (1924) Find Your Man (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924) On Thin Ice (1925) Are Parents People? (1925) After Business Hours (1925) The Trouble with Wives (1925) A Woman of the World (1925) The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926) A Social Celebrity (1926) Good and Naughty (1926) The Show Off (1926) The Popular Sin (1926) Knockout Reilly (1927) Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Sporting Goods (1928) Beau Broadway (1928) The Fleet's In (1928) The Canary Murder Case (1929) Side Street (1929) Welcome Danger (1929; uncredited) Night Parade (1929)

1930s	Montana Moon (1930) Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930) Remote Control (1930; uncredited) The Boudoir Diplomat (1930) Olsen's Big Moment (1933) Goldie Gets Along (1933) Crack-Up (1936) Time Out for Romance (1937) Born Reckless (1937) She Had to Eat (1937) Dangerously Yours (1937) A Trip to Paris (1938) Safety in Numbers (1938) Down on the Farm (1938) Everybody's Baby (1939) The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) Quick Millions (1939) Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

1940s	Young as You Feel (1940) Meet the Missus (1940) The Bashful Bachelor (1942) The Man in the Trunk (1942) Over My Dead Body (1942) Two Weeks to Live (1943) Jitterbugs (1943) The Dancing Masters (1943) Swing Out the Blues (1943) The Big Noise (1944) The Bullfighters (1945) Arthur Takes Over (1948) Fighting Back (1948)

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